2009-11-26

Arnd

December 2009 Vacation Trip 2010-11-26

Thursday, November 26, 2009

Now that I’m on my 4th mini Carib beer (what a nasty marketing scam, making 275ML bottles) and feeling much better, allowing the alcohol to dilute the lactic acid in my tissues after a busy day. I managed to get a lot of work done on the boat, both inside cleaning and outside cleaning/preparatory work! Tomorrow morning my neighbor here at the dock will help me hoist my repaired genoa sail and then all I need to do is to get the mainsail prepared and the dinghy inflated and ready to go; then I can depart from the dock – while I will miss the comfort of air conditioned comfort while plugged into the mains power supply I will be happy to get out of the marina and start cruising again. I did learn an important lesson today, when I opened up the left sink cover I saw a rusted mess of ostensibly stainless steel. It turns out that I shouldn’t have stored the opened container of acid used to “pickle“ the reverse osmosis system in there!

Original hosting provider breaks my old website

My old hosting company, who will remain unnamed although their name starts with “go” and the end rhymes with “baddy”, changed their software with little notice and the original SV-ZANSHIN.COM site stopped working overnight.

Every. Single. Page.

So I’ve transitioned to another provider. These original pages have been migrated, but all the formatting and other features are gone and the will still contain numerous display issues and formatting anomalies.

The manual effort of conversion is too much and not worth the effort involved. Over 1000 blog diary pages like this one are going to remain in this condition. The pictures are full-scale, but won’t expand when clicked. But you can can copy them to view them in their original splendour.